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package org.pentaho.di.repository;

/**
 * This interface allows an object to be identified with an ID in a repository (or elsewhere). In some cases, this ID is
 * a long integer (Database Repository), in some cases a filename, in other cases a UUID. So in general we made the ID
 * itself a String.
 *
 * @author matt
 *
 */
public interface ObjectId {
  public String getId();
}
